Casual Affair

Another thing to add to the "the crazy things I do" list

I have a natural tendency to get myself into crazy things. When I was living with my grandparents, the school was out early. I figured my grandparents would not find out so I should go out on the town. Well I was probably like 9, so going out of town was playing at friends house. My grandparents found out school was out early and I didn't come home. they thought I was kidnapped and launched a city wide search and my uncle was on his way to file a police complaint. Eventually they found out I was playing at a friends house. I got home and I could see the tension and stress in everyone's face and yet I was mad that they found out.

I could write a book of all these little stories- I was the terror of my dads eyes. Thankfully for his blood pressure's sake, I slowed down as I got older. But I cannot ignore the natural tendency I have, so every once in a while I do crazy stuff.

I was going out of town for the weekend and booked an early morning flight for 5:40 a.m. The airport is an hour away and I need to be there an hour before. So, I put my alarm for 2:45 a.m and took my time packing and went to bed at 12:00 a.m. I was super confident in my ability to get up at 2:45 because I set up three alarms in 5 minute increments. I dozed off to my dream land and was dreaming about work [topic for another day] and some random stuff. I remember my sleepy self waking up for the first alarm and turning off the other two alarms [brilliant move, I know] and closed my eyes thinking I will wake up in 5 minutes.

I wish I had superpowers but in my sleep I actually think I have superpowers. A superpower to wake up in 5 minutes. Ofcourse I don't have any superpowers and the phone rings at 5 a.m. My mom asks if I am at the airport and I scream in panic- "it's 5 and I am still home!!"


I jump off my bed get to the airport. It's the holiday weekend and the agent tells me that there are no other flight available. I break out the water works [one of my favorite things about being a girl] and the agent magically gets me a seat!! I call my panicked parents and tell them that I get a seat. They were happy and didn't really seemed shocked that this happened. I could imagine all the parents giving a lecture but mine were like it happens! May be because all my craziness has made them immune to panic!!

Now that I am on the plane, I smile when I think about what happened. It was stressful for those few hours but now I have a memory to look back to. Another memory to add to my craziness. What's the fun in life if we play eveything safe- get home everytime school ends early or never miss a flight? When we are old and telling stories to our grand kids- we will remember these events, not those where everything happened the way it was supposed to.